More of Japan's 500 universities are introducing continuing education programmes to raise enrolments following a sharp drop in the number of school-leaver entrants. The passing of the second "baby...
How I delighted in Angela McRobbie's justification of (apology for?) Oasis. Last May, six thugs smashed my car window as they chanted the chorus of "Wonderwall". When I complained, they sang "Don't...
French anthropologist Philippe Descola tells Lucy Hodges about a lively two years spent with an isolated South American Indian tribe of wife-beaters and reformed headhunters with a penchant for...
A new strategy bringing academics and industrialists together to commercialise Scottish research in science and technology could create at least another 11,000 jobs over the next ten years. This...
Plans for a new single quality agency and system for higher education have been revamped in response to criticisms from the sector. Fresh proposals contained in a report to be published in early...
If you want to get ahead - get a hat. Perhaps that old slogan really is true. Tom Cannon has more hats than Ladies Day at Ascot. And, following his roles as director of Manchester Business School,...
A Dundee University botanist is going to Australia to study the roots of an unusual tree, after beating competition from 12 Commonwealth countries for a scholarship from the Association of Rhodes...
Dear Ron... In the fifth of our series of open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education, Patrick Coldstream, (left) takes a look at the future from a vantage point in the...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has released the results of a study showing that in the past 15 years the disparities between rich and poor have not been reduced. In fact, they have...
Cambridge University students are preparing to mount a major campaign to ensure the Easter term is extended by one week. But bursars of the 34 Cambridge colleges are opposed to extending the term...
John Winfield, convener of Glasgow University's safety and environmental committee, acknowledges that "shafts of wit and humour" are always welcome in the university newsletter reports of court and...
While diamonds are forever, Bond actors tend to lose their shine after the fourth appearance, according to research by a university economist. Mark Baimbridge, a lecturer at Bradford University,...
In 1990, congregation, the parliament of Oxford University, passed a resolution establishing the school of management studies. This followed widespread discussion in the university stimulated by two...
One of the fundamental planks in Government policy has been that increases in real incomes have to be earned. Gone are the days when there would be an inexorable rise in living standards, regardless...
A new "contract" between patients, doctors and medicines' regulators is needed to improve communication about the safety of different medicines, according to a new study, writes Kam Patel. Expert and...